September 16, 2016

Presentation of the CRCB’s new research results in the William Gates Building of the Computer Laboratory at the conference  “Frontiers of Data Science for Government: Ideas, Practices, and Projections. Data for Policy -2016” organised by the University of Cambridge.

The presentation covered corruption risk detection, measuring competitive intensity, and a new way to analyse overpricing suggested by the CRCB’s researchers. Based on statistical analyses of 127,000 Hungarian read more

The analysis of first digits of contract prices indicates that the contract prices of all Hungarian public procurement fits into the theoretical distribution for the whole period. But there are crucial differences in price distortion among the contract prices in each year. Price distortion was increasing throughout the whole period; while in 2009 and 2010 contract prices fitted well into the theoretical distribution, after those years the ratio of price distortion got more and read more